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Sn Memoriam. 
EDWARD HALLIDAY. 
WE were very sorry to receive the announcement of the death 
of Mr. Edward Halliday, of Halifax, which event took place on 
April 5th last. He was in his eightieth year, and was almost 
the last of the old band of working men lepidopterists of a 
generation ago, being a contemporary of James Varley, William 
Talbot, George Liversedge, and many others. Halliday retained 
his. interest in lepidoptera up to the last; and at the 
excursion and meeting of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union 
at Hebden Bridge—one of his favourite localities—on June 11th, 
1904, was quite enthusiastic over the species which occurred 
there. 
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JOHN FRANCIS: WALKER, M.A-, F.G:S., F.Z.S, 
WE regret to hear of the death, on May 24th, of John Francis 
Walker, M.A., F.G.S., F.Z.S., of Bootham, York, at the age 
of sixty-seven. He was a member of an old York family, and 
for many years took a keen interest in the York Philosophical 
Society, of which he was a vice-president. He was also a 
frequent donor to the York Museum. He was perhaps best 
known from the keen interest he took in geology—particularly 
in collecting. His series of fossil brachiopoda, over which he 
spent many years in getting together, is exceptionally complete, 
and has formed the subject of several papers in the Annual 
Reports of the York Philosophical Society, and elsewhere. At 
the recent York Meeting of the British Association he was 
elected Chairman of a Committee for the investigation of the 
Neocomian Beds at Knapton. Mr. Walker was a life-member 
of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union. 
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Birds I have known.—A. H. Beavan. T. Fisher Unwin, 256 pp. 
Second Edition, 2/- This appears to be a reprint, on thinner paper, of the 
work noticed in these columns for May, 1905 (pp. 158-9). The cover is 
certainly more attractive than that of the first edition, and at its present 
price it is a very cheap volume. 
1907 June 1. 
